Lol, I had read about the guy, but never with a picture included. He looks about how I wold expect. There was an update to the story recently where he was threatening to sue the city into bankruptcy for financial losses to him for the hypothetical amount on the hard drive. They rightly denied him the excavation because of 1) the environmental issues involved with excavating a landfill down to the depth of 10 years ago 2) rightfully doubting a 10+ year old hard drive stored with landfill effluent and trash would be recoverable 3) seemingly to me, him being a complete unreasonable prick about it (he was unwilling to even put the money up front and seemed pretty unserious in general, plus now I’ve seen him and also negatively judged him Im assuming the did too. Anyway, dude is never getting his internet money, and it seems to be completely consuming him. It’s not really funny, but sorta tragi-comic. Hopefully with a firm “no” now in hand, he can actually move on.

Edit: time flies, this story is actually the update I was talking about… now that I read it